| Titre : | Readings in English Literature, Prose | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | English Literature, Auteur | | Editeur : | General Books LLC | | Année de publication : | 2012 | | Importance : | 82 p. | | Format : | 18.9 x 0.4 x 24.6 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-150-47574-0 | | Langues : | Anglais | | Résumé : | This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... cook, and a maater of his horse, and hia lady and child to wear black patches; which methought was strange, but he is become a perfect courtier. Among other things, my lady saying that she could get a good merchant for her daughter Jem, he answered that, he would rather see her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so she married a gentleman, than she should marry a citizen. This afternoon, going through London, and calling at Crowe's the upholsterers, in Saint Bartholomews, I saw limbs of some of our new traitors set upon Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to see; and a bloody week this have been, there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered. JOHN LOCKE. John Locke, author of An Essay concerning Human Understanding, the Reasonableness of Christianity, On Civil Government, Letters concerning Toleration, etc., was born A.d. 1635, adopted the profession of medicine, had for his friend and patron Lord Ashley, afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury, minister in the reign of Queen Anne, was for a short time member of the Board of Trade, and died in 1704 at the good age of seventy-two. READING MADE PROFITABLE BY CONSIDERATION AND REFLECTION. This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always 80. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are, indeed, in some writers, visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued... |
Readings in English Literature, Prose [texte imprimé] / English Literature, Auteur . - USA : General Books LLC, 2012 . - 82 p. ; 18.9 x 0.4 x 24.6 cm. ISBN : 978-1-150-47574-0 Langues : Anglais | Résumé : | This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... cook, and a maater of his horse, and hia lady and child to wear black patches; which methought was strange, but he is become a perfect courtier. Among other things, my lady saying that she could get a good merchant for her daughter Jem, he answered that, he would rather see her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so she married a gentleman, than she should marry a citizen. This afternoon, going through London, and calling at Crowe's the upholsterers, in Saint Bartholomews, I saw limbs of some of our new traitors set upon Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to see; and a bloody week this have been, there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered. JOHN LOCKE. John Locke, author of An Essay concerning Human Understanding, the Reasonableness of Christianity, On Civil Government, Letters concerning Toleration, etc., was born A.d. 1635, adopted the profession of medicine, had for his friend and patron Lord Ashley, afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury, minister in the reign of Queen Anne, was for a short time member of the Board of Trade, and died in 1704 at the good age of seventy-two. READING MADE PROFITABLE BY CONSIDERATION AND REFLECTION. This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always 80. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are, indeed, in some writers, visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued... |
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